RozoFS is a
free software
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distributed file system
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. It comes as a free software, licensed under the GNU
GPL
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v2. RozoFS uses
erasure coding
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for redundancy.
Design
Rozo provides an open source POSIX filesystem, built on top of
distributed file system
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architecture similar to
Google File System
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,
Lustre or
Ceph. The Rozo specificity lies in the way data is stored. The data to be stored is translated into several chunks using
Mojette Transform and distributed across storage devices in such a way that it can be retrieved even if several pieces are unavailable. On the other hand, chunks are meaningless alone. Redundancy schemes based on coding techniques like the one used by RozoFS allow to achieve significant storage savings as compared to simple replication.
The file system comprises three components:
* Exports server — (Meta Data Server) manages the location (layout) of chunks (managing capacity load balancing with respect to high availability), file access and namespace (hierarchy). Multiple replicated metadata servers are used to provide
failover
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. The Exports server is a user-space
daemon
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Demon, daemon or dæmon may also refer to:
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; the metadata are stored synchronously to a usual file system (the underlying file system must support extended attributes).
* Storage servers — (Chunk Server) store the chunks. The Chunk server is also a user-space
daemon
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that relies on the underlying local file system to manage the actual storage.
* Clients — talk to both the exports server and chunk servers and are responsible for data transformation. Clients mount the file system into user-space via
FUSE.
See also
*
MapR FS
*
Mojette Transform
*
Distributed file system
A clustered file system (CFS) is a file system which is shared by being simultaneously Mount (computing), mounted on multiple Server (computing), servers. There are several approaches to computer cluster, clustering, most of which do not emplo ...
*
List of file systems, the distributed parallel fault-tolerant file system section
*
GlusterFS
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*
BeeGFS
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BeeGFS was originally de ...
*
MooseFS
References
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Press articles
* Storage Inside
"Innovative Ansätze hauchen Scale-out NAS neues Leben ein"article July 2016
* Storage Inside
"Storage-Startups: Die nächste Welle rollt"article July 2016
* CDP Blo
article May 2016
* Storage Newslette
"MemoScale With New Iteration to Make Erasure Coding Universal"article May 2016
* The Registe
"Could Rozo squeeze into the scale-out NAS-object scalability gap?"article Dec. 2015
* Le Monde Informatiqu
article Dec. 2015
* Le Mag IT (TechTarget
"Rozo Systems dévoile la version 2.0 de sa technologie NAS distribuée"article Dec. 2015
* Storage Newslette
"V2.0 of RozoFS Scale-Out NAS Software"article Dec. 2015
* Silicon.f
article Dec. 2015
* The Registe
"Big Blue boosts Spectrum Scale, polishes the parallel file systems"article Dec. 2015
* ChannelNew
"OpenIO et Rozo Systems, les deux pépites françaises du SDS"article Nov. 2015
* The Registe
"French upstart Rozo: Magic beans will help us become storage giant"article Oct. 2015
* Storage Newslette
"Start-Up Profile: Rozo Systems in Software-Defined Scale-Out NAS"article Oct. 2015
* Le Monde Informatiqu
article Oct. 2015
External links
RozoFS official websiteRozoFS project on GitHubRozoFS blog
Distributed file systems
Network file systems
Userspace file systems
Distributed data storage